Ross, No I don't. I've never done it on mine and have never had a complaint from others, mind you almost all of my kitchen pots and pans are made of copper perhaps it's an acquired taste. Also saliva is quite a powerful solvent, more so than one might think, just look what it dose to the plating on ...

I use brass tubes. I've been making brass tubes as replacement parts for neighbors old cast iron sausage stuffer's for years. .Their all Icelanders and they do tend to get a little careless when making deer sausage after the hunt, what with the refreshments an all. I've found brass to be the best th...

Well Ross I tend to think that the people who pour off this liquid are either not waiting long enough for the meat to reach an equilibrium with the liquid, the cure density was to high or they just don't mind wasting product and not getting a full cure because the liquid is the vehicle that carries ...

Ross ,Think back WAY back to those long tedious days in chemistry class when you learned about the "Process of Osmosis", that is the transfer of a substance through a membrane from an area of greater pressure to an area of lesser pressure. When you first apply the cure, spices, herbs and whatnot the...

Where's the smoke? :???: The price one pays for extended photo set up & leaving the smoker door open = a smokeless smoker shot. :wink: Here's a shot for those needing to see some smoke.... :mrgreen: Image Just a thought, but I'd open the damper on the firebox just a tad if I were you. I mean your s...

ssorllih wrote:I think that you need to stack some of those glacial remnants under that smoke pipe before the next snow storm puts it on the ground.

Glacial remnants? I would just have stacked some of those Rocks under that pipe but I suppose glacial remnants would work too.

Swallow

What I did some years ago was to spring for a Honda Pressure washer, got it on sale for around $600. cdn. This little toy blasts out hot or cold soapy water at close to 2000 psi and if yer not careful it can tear the chrome off of a trailer hitch. I use it all over the yard like cleaning the tractor...

Back in 1998 to 2001 when the pork market in Manitoba sorta crashed and the hog farmers couldn't sell a hog I was buying 225 pound market hogs for DOG FOOD as it was cheaper than buying so called real dog food. I was paying $50.00 cnd per head and that was shot gutted and delivered to my house. I gr...

As I said in my intro my name really is Swallow, the bird not the big gulp. It was given to me by my Grandmother who said I reminded her of a little bird that chirped too much and it just stuck. It's worked out ok I guess cept for my stint in the army where I was known as "Private Swallow" It wasn't...

Ross forty years ago I was the VW bus crowd, Buckskins, beads, rose colored shades long hair and sandals. Then I grew up and had to work, got rid of the "LOVE LOAF" and bought a 1966 Corvette. The rest as they say is history and now I can afford to live the life that I dreamed of WAY back then. And ...

G'day to all in this place. Just joined cuz like I enjoy playing with my meat and I figured what better place to find kindred spirits than with a bunch of sausage stuffer' s :lol: Anyhoos, I'm a retired foundry pattern maker of some thirty really odd years. I have in my tenure as a pattern maker mad...